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. 2020 Jun 19;86(1):65. doi: 10.5334/aogh.2837

Table 2B.

Institutional characteristics of colleges and universities offering majors and minors in public health and/or global health in the United States during the 2019–20 academic year. Rows within each category are ordered based on the percentage shown in the final column.

Total Major Minor Major and/or Minor

# # % # % # %

Total 411 101 25 105 26 144 35
Size classification by full-time equivalent enrollment (2018) Large (≥10,000) 91 49 54 46 51 64 70
Medium (3000–9999) 92 19 21 16 17 26 28
Small (1000–2999) 180 28 16 39 22 48 27
Very small (<1000) 48 5 10 4 8 6 13
Undergraduate students as a percentage of total enrollment (2018) Majority graduate (<50%) 17 5 29 8 47 10 59
Majority undergraduate (50% to 74%) 63 26 41 27 43 35 56
High undergraduate (75% to 89%) 98 32 33 32 33 43 44
Very high undergraduate (≥90%) 137 28 20 21 15 37 27
Exclusively undergraduate (100%) 96 10 10 17 18 19 20
Undergraduate selectivity (2018) More selective (80th to 100th percentile) 246 66 27 74 30 100 41
Selective (40th to 80th percentile) 118 24 20 22 19 32 27
Inclusive 43 10 23 8 19 11 26
Ownership Public 96 39 41 34 35 49 51
Private 315 62 20 71 23 95 30
Location City: midsize 49 21 43 19 39 27 55
City: large 87 24 28 30 34 37 43
City: small 52 16 31 14 27 21 40
Town 96 20 21 25 26 30 31
Suburb 106 19 18 16 15 27 25
Rural 21 1 5 1 5 2 10